PLEASE NOTE: This series was last updated in 2021, and is therefore no longer generally for sale. If you are interested in it for the excellent foundation in producing output in Lightroom Classic that it provides, even though it is not up-to-date, please contact me for pricing.

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Lightroom 5, 6 and Classic: Producing Great Output

A Workshop on Video with Laura Shoe

Lightroom 5, 6, Classic CC: Producing Great Output V. 8

Produce professional-quality prints, photo books and e-books, slideshows and web galleries with Lightroom!

  • For Lightroom Classic (AKA Classic CC; updated through 10.4) and for the old Lightroom 5, and 6.

  • Over 13 hours of training on 61 videos – download and keep them forever (no subscription)

  • Assumes basic experience with Lightroom (Start with my Lightroom Fundamentals & Beyond series.)

  • Try it RISK FREE with my 60-day 100% satisfaction guarantee

“Laura’s video training has to be the best and easiest way to master Lightroom. It’s superb…perfect for both beginners and intermediate level Lightroom users and will impress advanced users as well.

Photosource International

Laura Shoe has taught for Adobe, creativeLIVE, Rocky Mountain School of Photography and other organizations and has been making video tutorials for over 10 years. From her years of teaching experience she anticipates where students get stuck, and with a clear and concise presentation style, guides you through the complexities with ease.

Adobe Certified Expert Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe Community Professional

What You’ll Learn

After learning how to prepare for your output project, you’ll learn everything there is to know about creating output with Lightroom’s Book, Print, Slideshow and Web modules, as well critical output concepts that every photographer should understand. Click on the tabs below to read more about what you’ll learn:

Book

The Book Module (3 hours 40 minutes)

  • Create beautiful photo books that you can upload to Blurb.com to have printed.

  • Create PDF e-books to put on your mobile devices and to share electronically with people.

  • Create JPEG files of your page designs – use any time you want nicely formatted photos and/or text on a page!

Videos:

  • Available Book Options
  • Workflow and Preferences
  • Getting Started
  • Saving Your Book Work
  • Basic Layout Skills
  • Changing Page Layouts
  • Lightroom Classic Freeform Layouts and Photo Borders
  • Basics of Adding Text
  • More Text Skills
  • Adding Image and Graphic Page Backgrounds
  • Designing Beautiful Covers
  • Using Auto Layout Presets to Save Time and Improve Consistency
  • Tips for Reviewing Your Book before Having It Printed
  • Uploading or Exporting Your Book
  • Reusing Your Book Designs with Other Photos
Lightroom Library Module
Print

The Print Module (2 hours 45 minutes)

Together with the Output Concepts section of this course, this is a full course in pro-level printing!

  • Use the Print module to create single-photo or multi-photo designs.

  • Print to your own photo printer with professional-quality results.

  • Save your designs as JPEG files to have someone else print them or to share them electronically.

Videos:

  • Print Module Overview
  • Saving Your Work: Print Collections
  • Saving Your Design to Use with Other Photos: Templates
  • Setting Output Size and Destination
  • Making Contact Sheets
  • Triptychs and More; Adding Text
  • Single Photo Layouts
  • Picture Package – Printing Multiple Sizes of the Same Photo
  • Creating Free-Form Designs/Collages with Custom Package
  • The Print Job Panel – Setting Resolution, Profile, and More
  • Printer Settings
  • Thirteen Keys to Printing Success (What Can Go Wrong and What to Do)
Lightroom Library Module
Slideshow

The Slideshow Module (2 hours)

  • Create slideshows with text and music.

  • Play them in Lightroom or export videos and PDFs to share online.

Videos:

  • Overview; Previewing and Playing Your Slideshow
  • Set Timing, Pan and Zoom, Music, Other Playback Options
  • Setting Slide Background Options, Photo Layout and Borders
  • Adding Text to Your Slides – Identity Plate, Watermarks and More
  • Adding Text to Your Slides, Part 2 – Titles, Captions, and More Custom Text
  • Adding Introductory, Ending and Section Title Slides
  • Saving Your Work
  • Exporting Videos and PDFs of Your Slideshows
Lightroom Library Module
Web

The Web Module (1 hours 33 minutes)

  • Design web galleries showcasing your work and upload them to your website or other webspace.

  • Discover where you may have personal webspace to use that you didn’t know about.

Videos:

  • Who Can Use the Web Module, For What
  • Introduction to Working with the Web Module
  • Perfecting the Different Types of Designs Available (4 videos for Lightroom 5, 3 videos for 6, CC 2015, Classic)
  • Image Info and Output Settings Panels
  • Exporting and Uploading Your Gallery
  • Saving Your Work
Lightroom Library Module
Output Concepts

Output Concepts (2 hours 35 minutes)

  • Master output concepts that are critical to getting great quality output and that I think every photographer should understand!

Videos:

  • Introduction to Color Management – Why Your Output May Not Match What You See in Lightroom, and What You Can Do About It
  • Calibrating Your Monitor
  • Printer Profiles
  • Color Spaces (sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.) and Previewing Your Output with Soft Proofing
  • Output Proportions – Why You Can’t Get that 8×10 without Cropping; Where to Crop
  • Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Printing (How Large Can I Print My Photo?)
  • Understanding and Setting Size and Resolution for Screen-Based Output
  • The JPEG Quality Setting and Compression
  • Output Sharpening

What You Get

61 Videos

Top quality instruction
1024x768px
Playable on PC, Mac, Mobile Devices

Shortcuts

Speed up your workflow with this PDF of my favorite output-related Lightroom shortcuts.

Searchable Index

A 50+ page detailed searchable index with video subtopic start times so you can get to any topic within any video fast

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

Try the series RISK FREE – if you don’t love it, contact us within 60 days for a full refund.

What’s New Since Previous Versions of Producing Great Output

  • Book module videos now incorporate new features added in Lightroom Classic 7 and 8, including new Blurb trade book, magazine and layflat options; editable page layouts; freeform photo and text cells; photo borders, and other small changes. (Those of you who purchased in 2018 were offered a free Book update in summer, 2018 that updated for many of these changes.)

  • New video for Enhance Raw Details and changes to workflow video to accomodate running this.

  • New video for Enhance: Super Resolution and changes to a handful of other videos due to this ability to increase the size of files and its impact on output capabilities and workflow.

  • New video discussing how to set up and manage catalog backups and how to restore a catalog backup to recover lost output (and other) work

  • Miscellaneous small updates

Should I Upgrade to This Version?

There are not a lot of changes, particularly if you’re not interested in making photo books (physical or e-books) or you received Book updates last year, or you have Lightroom 5 or 6. That said, in a perfect world, if you haven’t watched many videos yet or plan to revisit the series extensively and aren’t facing a budget constraint, I almost always suggest upgrading so that you can be confident you’re hearing fully up-to-date and relevant information.

  • Book module videos now incorporate new features added in Lightroom Classic 7 and 8, including new Blurb trade book, magazine and layflat options; editable page layouts; freeform photo and text cells; photo borders, and other small changes.

  • The slideshow videos are updated to include the features added during the Lightroom 6 / CC 2015 product cycle: pan and zoom, up to 10 music tracks, aspect preview, reorganized Playback panel.

  • The Web module videos are updated to cover the new HTML5 Track, Grid and Square galleries.
  • New video discussing how to set up and manage catalog backups and how to restore a catalog backup to recover lost output (and other) work.

  • New video for Enhance Raw Details and changes to workflow video to accomodate running this.

  • New video for Enhance: Super Resolution and changes to a handful of other videos due to this ability to increase the size of files and its impact on output capabilities and workflow.

  • Miscellaneous small updates

  • Easily get to any topic within any video fast with the 45+ page detailed searchable index with video subtopic start times

Should I Upgrade to This Version?

If you have Lightroom 5: Producing Great Output or Lightroom 4: Producing Great Output, there have been enough changes that I recommend updating your series.

Not sure what version you have? Click here to contact us and we’ll check for you!

What My Customers Say

I have many, many books on Lightroom — too many to read them all. However, I have found that Laura’s videos are far easier to comprehend and the quality of the videos is unequaled. She is definitely a cut above. – Richard Dunn

What a great discovery Laura has been, with no nonsense tutorials and very clear to understand step-by-step instructions. I really thought I knew Lightroom but was really just skimming the surface. Other instructors I have tried usually just say “do this”, Laura firmly sits in the “why you should” bracket. Please support this top class instructor and you will not be sorry. In fact like myself you will be very delighted that you did. – Graeme Broadhurst (United Kingdom, camera club member)

Lightroom Training Video Review - Graeme

Laura’s training is always clear and to the point. She seems to anticipate my questions before they even form in my mind. I highly recommend Laura’s training to beginners as well as advanced users. She knows her stuff!

– LM Greene (Computer Consultant/Photo Enthusiast, Connecticut)

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I tried using Lightroom for a number of years and always gave up right away - there are so many subtle issues with the interface, and it's not always clear what's going on. I purchased your Lightroom Fundamentals and Beyond video series and I am so glad that I did. Your clear, detailed explanations are so helpful and have given me the understanding I was missing by trying to figure it out on my own. Thank you so much!

– Jim Detwiler

Jim Detwiler

Laura Shoe’s Lightroom course has allowed me to finally understand what Lightroom is and what I can do with it. I have paid hundreds of dollars for Lightroom lessons in person and on the internet, but I screwed up constantly. But by following all the easy steps in Laura Shoe’s course I see myself now as a Lightroom pro! She is clear, calm, easy to understand, exact, precise and friendly. What more do you want?! Hurry, she is the best Lightroom coach you’ll ever need!

– Marijke Rawie (Documentary Consultant, Amsterdam Netherlands)

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As a serious non-professional travel photographer I had been using Photoshop for 15 years when Lightroom came along. After attending classes in Lightroom where I came away confused, I bought Laura’s video course on LR. Her clear instruction taught me LR and today I use it for all my photography, only occasionally going to Photoshop. I can’t thank Laura enough and would recommend her videos highly.

– Sandra Kunz (Bend, OR)

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I just wanted you to know how much I have enjoyed your Lightroom video series. The tutorials are clear and concise, but cover all relevant aspects of the Lightroom features. In fact, I make it a habit to sit down once every couple of weeks and give myself a short “refresher” on some aspect (usually of the Develop module). There is so much functionality that I find I’m always rediscovering something about the program when I revisit a video. Thanks so much.

– Michal Bagley (travel and pet photographer, Austin, Texas)

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I purchased your Lightroom tutorial series and have found it to be superb! I gained a great deal of expertise and felt more at ease in editing my images after participating in this series. Thank you for aiding me in becoming a better photographer.

– Dick Weaver (Pensacola, FL; convert from B/W film and darkroom printing; photo club president)

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Laura is the consummate professional, at the top of the game in terms of delivering the best available Lightroom training, tutorials and tips for both the advanced and beginner. Her training course are extremely well crafted. Pace and pitch of delivery is a pleasure to experience. – Matt O’Brien

Lightroom Tutorial Recommendation Matt O'Brien

Learning how to get the most from Lightroom is so much easier with Laura’s video workshops. Each topic is covered by a short stand alone video which can be watched on its own or as part of the series. I have both The Fundamentals & Beyond and Producing Great Output (for Lightroom 5) on my iPad. Ahead of working on some photos I watch one or more video chapters to refresh my memory. It’s great when you are on a train, etc. My knowledge and use of Lightroom is so much better now thanks to Laura’s clearly explained tutorials.

– Sandy (Cambridge, UK)

Lightroom Training Review Sandy

Your straightforward and clear videos finally opened my eyes to the value of Lightroom after I had made several previous failed attempts. Largely thanks to your instruction, I now use it for almost 90% of my photo work, and I have recommended your videos to many other people.

– Caspar Davis (Victoria, B.C.)

Lightroom Tutorial Review

Without Laura Shoe, I would have given up on photography completely. I came to it late – in my 60s – and after frustrating experiences with Photoshop, I switched to Lightroom. I found that the teaching resources available didn’t work very well for me. I wish I could remember how I discovered Laura’s work, but I am enormously glad that I did. Her videos have helped me so much – the content and presentation are beyond reproach. Thanks to her inspiration, photography is now an important part of my life. I can create and print images that give me great satisfaction and just occasionally pride. Laura – thank you so much! John Woodman (Castletown, Isle of Man)

Lightroom Training Review John Woodman

I am 67 years old, an ‘enthusiast’ photographer, and was slowly discovering Lightroom through trial and error until I discovered your website. THANK YOU so much!! You have saved me hours of frustration. After working through both Fundamentals & Beyond and Producing Great Output workshops on video I now feel like I know what I am doing (and why). And I love Lightroom! – Barb Twite (Australia)

Lightroom Training Testimonial - Barb Twite

The Laura Shoe video series for Lightroom has been indispensable in my development as a photographer. While I had strong photography skills in terms of capturing photos, the post-processing learning curve was steep for me. I purchased both series of Laura’s educational videos and have enjoyed her ability to explain Lightroom in a way that makes sense and is easy to follow. I am presently working on a book about the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve and the knowledge gained from Laura Shoe’s video series has contributed greatly to the success of this project. I would highly recommend this series to anyone wanting to learn more about Lightroom.

– Joe Ordonez (Rainbow Glacier Adventures; professional nature photographer, author, tour leader)

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I have Laura’s tutorials on Lightroom 4 and 5. They have enabled me to utilize the wonders of Lightroom. Tutorials are clear, easy to understand and tell you what you need to know. They are the best I have seen. Well worth the cost. Keep up the good work, Laura.

– Rick Currie (landscape, nature and travel photographer)

Lightroom Tutorial Review

I had been using Photoshop Elements. At first I was overwhelmed with learning how to use Lightroom because I couldn’t intuitively grasp all of its capabilities. I watched Adobe and YouTube videos but I still did not have a comprehensive understanding of this software. Then then I found Laura Shoe’s instructional videos. They gave me a solid grounding in the capability and function of Lightroom. Since then I have watched many other good tutorials by other people. But it is Laura’s set of instructional videos which I found to be the clearest and most concise – especially at that point in my learning curve. It was money very well spent to allow this teacher to guide me through the intricacies of Lightroom while I gained confidence.Thank you for a wonderful product.

– Grace Finaldi

Lightroom Tutorial Recommendation

I’m one of the many who moved from Aperture to Lightroom. Most of my struggles these past months have been in the Library module. I just couldn’t grasp how to organize my photo library. All the books and online tutorials kind of just glanced over this important step. My eyes were opened and the light began to shine as I watched your videos and followed your instructions on how to organize my photos. I can’t say enough about how easy, thorough and precise you are in explaining the concepts in your videos. I’ve learned so much from you in fact that recently I was asked by a long-time LR user to show her how to organize her library! Thanks for all your help. I couldn’t have done this without you!!! Susan Pederson

Lightroom Training Testimonial Susan Pederson

Laura Shoe’s Lightroom tutorials are simple, clear, and comprehensive. I have made a career of teaching computer applications and Laura Shoe’s tutorials are taught by a person who knows how to teach.

– Stephen Cysewski (Professor of Computer Applications, Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Lightroom Training Review Stephen Cysewski

I am a retired healthcare educator who teaches digital photography. Laura is a superb instructor. I especially enjoy viewing the videos I purchased so I can refer to them while I’m working projects such as the Book module. I have An Apple desktop and a PC side by side, so I can easily refer to Laura’s material on the PC while I’m working on the Apple. I feel grateful that I know about Laura and her excellent videos. I urge you to order her products. You won’t be disappointed! With gratitude for a great instructor like Laura, – Barbara Bourgette (North Providence, Rhode Island)

Lightroom Video Training Testimonial - Barbara Courgette

I have had Lightroom for a couple of years and really had no understanding of the complexity of all the modules and was muddling away in a disorganised manner getting nowhere fast. Sure I had a couple of books on the topic but they didn’t quite get the message across to me in a way that I could understand. Then I found Laura and her tutorials. I got the Fundamentals and Beyond and have learned more than I thought was possible. Laura is a pro — she explains without ego in clear concise and easy to follow manner. She gets on with the job, edits out unnecessary fluff and gets to the point, highlighting various relevant scenarios. I recommend and endorse Laura’s packages, totally. – Mike McPhee (Perth, Western Australia)

Lightroom Training Recommendation - Mike McPhee

I can not tell you how many times I go back to your [Fundamentals & Beyond] tutorials to help me fix an issue in Lightroom or to figure how a tool is used. Thank You So Much! They have saved me countless hours trying to do it on my own.

– Carla Mongelluzzi

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I found Laura’s videos on Lightroom 5 to be the best way to learn how to use it. The series contains a wealth of information on all the tools in the program. Being a video-based learning series, I was able to pause when I wanted to try what Laura was teaching. Laura is a fantastic teacher who clearly explains the process of the actions being used. I highly recommend Laura’s videos to any one wanting to learn Lightroom the best and easiest way possible.

– Joe (seascape photographer, Australia)

Lightroom Training Testimonial Joe - Australia

Laura Shoe’s workshop has provided an immeasurable insight into Lightroom and its catalog. Her clear communication and concise instructions corrected my misconceptions and enabled me to continue cataloging over 20,000 of my collected images. Thank you, Laura.

– Glenda Scott (graphic production; Richland, WA)

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L – Learning made easy and enjoyable
A – Anyone who can’t learn from Laura should pursue a different art form
U – You have nothing to lose and mastery of Lightroom to gain
R – Are you still reading this? Order a class already…
A – And another thing; She’s so entertaining, you don’t even need to be interested in Lightroom
S – So what’s it gonna take to get you into one of her lessons?
H – How about a money back guarantee?
O – Or the ability to ask her questions via Facebook?
E – Everyone can pick up something useful from her blog


– Gary Bakeman (Anchorage, Alaska; abstract and landscape photographer)

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Sample Videos

Overview of Lightroom’s Book, Print, Slideshow and Web Galleries

See what you can do in these powerful modules!

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Print Module Custom Package Feature

In this video I show how to create a photo collage with text in the Print module. In the video that follows I show you more creative examples. Later in the series I show how to print this using your own photo printer and how to export a JPEG file of it that you can share electronically or have someone else print.

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